I have seen this question here but have not seen a solution. I recently (grudgingly) upgraded to Lion 10.7

Now all my CS4 applications won't opne and give me this error that the license is no longer working! I have gone through all the fixes that Adobe recommends and nothing works. The only thing I have not done is uninstall everything and reinstall - I am really afraid to do that.

Has anyone found a solution to this? I am really upset and depend on Dreamweaver and Photoshop for my work!

First the application launch that they tell you to drag into the terminal has a line through it that means it is not compatibel with Lion

Second, I did it anyway - followed their exact instructions in the terminal and got error messages that the syntax was wrong - when I tried removing the space after sudo python that Adobe said you needed, it still didbn't work. I am going crazy with this. I hate adobe!!!

Yes, as I stated in my original post, I tried everything except uninstall which I am very afraid to do = plus I would have to uninstall and reinstall ALL my adobe products. There must be a fix for this! It was working fine a week ago!

YOu know I thought about that. Good idea and then I can see how it works. I assume it is good with Lion? Adobe is no longer selling CS5.5 thought because 6 is about to come out - but I think the trial is still there. I have been unting. Also amazon has 5.5 but they say it is only good through Leopard - is it fine with Lion?

I am downloading the trial now. What I really need is the Web Premium suite. I don't see it for sale at Adobe's site at all - I searched pretty extensively. Every link takes you to CS6 - that's why I was thinking of buying it from amazon.

I coudn't find the site manager at first - whole different desktop, but now I did. I've been chatting with Adobe sales and will probably buy the 5.5 upgrade which gets me 6 for free. Thanks for being there! This makes more sense than trying to trouble shoot the broken CS4.

had the same problem here with PSE 8 after system recovery from time machine backup. I also updated to Lion couple of month ago. I also tried all of the listed solutions on the adobe support pages but none of them worked. The folder FLEXNet_Publisher in the systems hard drives folder Preferences, which it says to be deleted does not exist and was only found in the application support folder. I also tried all of the other solutions listed on this page: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/error-licensing-stopped-mac-os.html and had more or less the same problems, it did not work.

I found the following solution myself by doing this:

go to the folder [hard drive]/Library/Application Support/FlexNet Publisher and make a copy of this folder

then go to the folder [hard drive]/Library/Preferences and paste this copied folder there.

Then try again to start your application and now it should show you the licenceregistry window. Type in your serial number and confirm. Then the application starts and runs properly. So it was on my system.

Interesting approach. I finally got on the phone with Adobe tech support and after many tries of various things, we finally got it working. He had to get on my computer remotely to figure it out - took installing as a different user and so forth. It seems OK now except for Bridge which runs slow as molasses - like useless.

THX @ Lsan61, but remember, my solution to copy and paste the named folders always works one time. I finally deleted PSE8 and reinstaled it again and it runs properly now. There was no problem with system difficulties, because of the 32 bit system PSE8 originally was made for and and the 64 bit systems (OS XLion) I have running now. I somewhere red, that this might cause installing problems.

My issue was with my MacBook I bought it last November and it crashed, so Genius Bar reinstalled my HD and I used Time Machine to retreive my last state of normalcy. All of my other programs work fine except Adobe Creative Suite had the 150:30 error message. It is working now thanks to your solution so I am least able to complete my project. However if I have future problems I will call Adobe during their business hours, since I own the software legally they should (hopefully) be able to help me. Thanks again!